(NOAH CHRONOLOGY) RATELS (Daisuke Harada & Tadasuke) ~ GHC JUNIOR HEAVYWEIGHT TAG CHAMPIONSHIP

Won: 2nd November 2019, Sumo Hall, Japan ("NOAH THE BEST")
Number of title reigns: Tadasuke (0) Daisuke Harada (4)
Number of defenses: 1
Lost: 26th November 2019, Niigata City Gymnasium
Total number of days held: 24

Challengers
1. STINGER (Atsushi Kotoge & Kotaro Suzuki)

vs STINGER
RATELS took the titles from STINGER at Sumo Hall on 2nd November 2019 following the Outcast from Tadasuke. After tagging together for fourteen years and many shots at the title, they had finally won the GHC Junior Heavyweight tag titles. Daisuke Harada (who looked happy for Tadasuke), wound the belt around his partners waist, and later said in the post match promo, "Bring it on assholes! This is Tadasuke's first belt!".
Tadasuke wrote a couple of weeks later on RATELS official PXDK diary that he wanted to set the record for the most number of defense matches.

Stinger, however where not going to take this lying down, and they appeared at end of HAYATA vs YO-HEY (GHC Junior Heavyweight title) to contest the win, but they didn't actually make a challenge for the belts until the fall out show in Osaka on the 9th November. However, Kotaro Suzuki announced that the team would change with himself and Atsushi Kotoge challenging, as Yoshinari Ogawa had a shoulder issue that meant that he wasn't up to title challenges or defenses. Daisuke Harada accepted the challenge on behalf of himself and Tadasuke, but asked for a shot at the IPW Junior Heavyweight title in return. Tag title match has been set for the 26th November in Niigata.

Tadasuke undertook the first two pre-matches, wrestling to a time limit draw with Kotaro Suzuki on November 10th at Texport Imabari, and then again with Atsushi Kotoge on November 11th in Hiroshima. During the match, Atsushi Kotoge tried to lock Tadasuke out of the arena.
Yes. That is what actually happened.
Tadasuke came roaring back like an enraged bull.

With Daisuke Harada otherwise occupied with his own title match at Korakuen Hall on the 16th November, Tadasuke (teaming with YO-HEY & HAYATA) faced down Kotaro Suzuki, Yoshinari Ogawa and Chris Ridgeway. While the GHC Junior Heavyweight rivalry between Chris Ridgeway & HAYATA is one story, the feud between Tadasuke & Kotaro Suzuki is another, with the two of them brawling in the crowd after the match. YO-HEY found himself having to break up fights between HAYATA & Chris Ridgeway, and then Kotaro Suzuki vs Tadasuke. When order was restored, and STINGER had eventually departed, YO-HEY managed to frogmarch Tadasuke and HAYATA backstage. In the waiting room he told them both to calm down, and then said something about children's Mah-Jong and drinking an Okinawan liquor. YO-HEY'S more practical advice was for them to get their revenge against STINGER at the next possible opportunity, which was the RATELS produce show. Neither Tadasuke or HAYATA listened to him, and ran off to find STINGER, leaving YO-HEY yelling after them about having three stars lined up (a reference to the children's Mah Jong game).

The RATELS produce show consisted of RATELS vs STINGER one on one, and then an elimination match to main event. In the singles matches Daisuke Harada defeated Kotaro Suzuki (his was the only kind of pre-match with Kotoge facing HAYATA, which went to a time limit draw). The main event of the elimination match came down to Tadasuke eliminating Kotaro Suzuki, and later Daisuke Harada and Atsushi Kotoge putting on an epic match in the final stages, which ended with Atsushi Kotoge getting the win after a few headbutts and the Killswitch. Kotoge spoke on the microphone and said somewhat sadly that he didn't think that there could ever be a happy ending between himself and Harada.
In the post match interviews a dejected RATELS sat together, with Harada in a bad mood, drifting in and out of Osaka dialect, and leaving Tadasuke to have the final (crazy) word.

The big match came at the Niigata City Gymnasium, and lasted an intense 20 minutes and 1 second (it is also a match of the year). The crowd were on their feet as everything both teams pulled out from Outkasts off the top turnbuckle (Tadasuke), Kotoge's Killswitch, to Harada's Katayama German Suplex and Kotaro's Blue Destiny, were all repeatedly kicked out of at the last moment. Neither side were going to give way, and everyone fought bitterly for the titles which had been in a perpetual tug of war for the last few months. Sadly for RATELS (and a humiliated Daisuke Harada), it was a combination of both exhaustion, and Tadasuke's penchant for getting carried away when playing up to the crowd, which lost them the titles. Too busy running around the ring lifting his fist from corner to corner (and at one point not even noticing that Kotoge was on his feet having had the chance to recover), he had missed his chance, and this ultimately cost them the titles when Atsushi Kotoge pinned him following the Killswitch.

Daisuke Harada (after a period of silence) emerged to say that he was angry at losing the titles so soon after winning them at Sumo Hall, and Tadasuke posted this....

Tadasuke soon bounced back, however, declaring that he would grow stronger, get the titles back, and work on new techniques.

NEXT CHAMPIONS: STINGER (Kotaro Suzuki and Atsushi Kotoge)